The Richard L. Schafer Dam Spillway at Lake Success is now complete, adding 9.8 billion gallons of water storage and improving flood protection for surrounding communities.

Success Dam is now Richard L. Schafer Dam. The dam, which has shielded the San Joaquin Valley floor from Sierra snowmelt while providing much-needed irrigation water to Tulare County farmers since ...

Saying that dam failure on the 70-acre lake would have a “tsunami effect,” Riggs told the crowd: “You have catastrophic, uncontrolled release of floodwater.

Success Dam was built in 1961 for flood control and irrigation water storage. The lake holds 82,300 acre-feet of water. Raising the spillway would increase storage to 110,000 acre-feet – about ...